ere technology meets humanity. monday, 5:30 eastern. only on al jazeera america. ♪ >> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ welcome to the news hour i'm in doha coming up in the next 60 minutes, a win for i.s.i.s. in the anbar province. and funerals for some of the nearly 200 people killed in a series of avalanches in afghanistan. case dismissed, an argentine judge drops a case against president kirchner.

♪ hello, iraqi forces in anbar province lost 20 soldiers in a battle with fighters from islamic state from iraq and lavante and a crucial breach that connects the city of baghdad and troops trying to take it back from the group and it's close to an air base used by u.s. and iraqi soldiers and i.s.i.l. suicide bombers attacked it on thursday but iraqi forces pushed back i.s.i.l. fighters and we are in baghdad and she explains why this area is important. >> reporter: the iraqi military is continuing to evacuate families from the city of baghdad in western anbar amid fierce fighting there, i.s.i.l. has taken according to security sources a bridge between the city of baghdad in the western

province where tribed combined with iraq fight i.s.i.l. and controls most of the province and fighting particularly fierce around there which is not far from the military base the huge base almost a small city is home to u.s. military trainers as well as its coalition partners. and there was an attempted suicide bombing attack there as well. according to security sources, i.s.i.l. retook the bridge on the river after that they sent military trucks seized from the iraqi military with suicide bombers to try to bomb a gate to the base. they didn't make it to the gate but they did make it to a check point nearby. just a couple of kilometers away that is where at least three of those suicide bombers detonated according to security sources. they say several iraqi officers and soldiers were also killed in that attack. this is where families have been under siege without food and

water. the iraqi military recently opened a corridor there and have been evacuating families by driving them to the assad base and driving to baghdad to avoid the route to the capitol or a round about route by road and few families left there and the situation is still dire according to sources there. a new video posted online by i.s.i.l. shows gunman sharking artifacts in the iraqi city of mosul and destroying priceless statutes with which are thousands of years old with sledgehammer and pick axes and it's real and some pieces in the picture were plaster copies and they make some income by selling looted items. and we have an archeologist and associate fellow at the london based institute of archeology and says the video posted by

i.s.i.l. is heartbreaking. >> look at it. all made of stone mostly. and limestone or what they call mosul marble. >> reporter: how does it make you feel seeing this happening? >> i can't believe it. it's something for me sometimes i wish it's a nightmare and i wake up and it's not true. i can't believe it. this is what it is for me. it's unbelievable. i mean this one is the capitol of the world. the empire of the syrians and was bigger than the egyptians which everybody talks about, i.s.i.l. has done such a lot of destruction, to think is if they loot them i prefer them looting them than really destroying them because destroying them that is gone forever. looting maybe succeeds 100 years

they will come out. somebody will try and sell them again. >> reporter: combined joint task force says the united states and partner nations launched 14 air strikes against i.s.i.l. fighters since wednesday and some targeted positions in an area where 255 assryians were abducted according to human rights and taken captive as they advanced in the province and zana reports from beirut. >> reporter: on tuesday activists reported that assryian christians were captured by islamic state of iraq and lavante, at the time they put the number at 90. there are now revising it and saying they have been in contact with community leaders as well as activists on the ground. their where ants are not known and conflicting reports and

saying i.s.i.l. took them to the stronghold south of the city. now the community as you can imagine is worried about their fate. they don't know if they are alive or if they are dead. i.s.i.l. has still not made any demands and it's not clear if i.s.i.l. will agree to actually exchange them in any prisoner swap, but what we understand from the syrian human rights is tribes on the ground are trying to mediate some deal to release these people. this is not the first time i.s.i.l. has captured people they captured hundreds if not thousands both in syria and in iraq but this was the first time that they captured such a large number of christians at once. for several months the world has looked on in shock at videos showing a masked man threatening to be head westerns in iraq under flag of i.s.i.l. and widely identified as a british citizen living in london called

mohamed and we report. >> reporter: when they turned up at the home in london they were long gone and the police had been around and reports said their son was a murderer and easily to understand why they didn't want to be there. >> proudly donated 100 million to kill women and children to kill the whole of the muslims. >> reporter: weeks since american services and voice recognition software helped them find jahadi john and ridiculous man and this was a man involved in be heading several captives and aid workers and journalists people who could not defend themselves and had not gone to fight. he became the aims of an organization which tore through iraq and syria as much of the world looked on in disbelief. the question is being raised as to what if anything the british securities knew of him but neither they or the police would

comment. this organization which routinely hears complaints from muslims about their lives in britain did know him and he told them he had been repeatedly harassed by the security services who blocked him from returning to kuwait where he was born. the man who knew him described him as a beautiful person enraged as his treatment by british authorities. >> this is a problem we have here, we created here in the uk an environment in which the security agencies can act with impunity and destroy the lives of young people. without any recourse to being able to challenge them in an effective way. >> reporter: to add to it all he was with michael the killer of the british soldier lee rigby and angered from the hands of british security and cannot talk about specific cases but efforts to maintain safety in the uk are always proportionate to threats and if the security services

tried to stop him returning home to kuwait from london they seemed to know who he was. the question is how dangerous they thought he was because after all this appears to be a successful young man far removed from the stereotype of the isolated loser apparently at risk of radicalizing influences. >> well educated as well and that is in terms of research and looking at the profile of people who go to syria and they are well educated and socially mobile people and not people coming from impoverished or deprived backgrounds. and his parents don't believe it's him but that is understandable, lawrence in london. head of public relations for al-qaeda convicted by a court in

new york and faces life in prison for being involved in the u.s. embassy bombs in kenya and tanzia in 1998, 224 killed saudi arabia was one of bin laden's aids arrested 13 members of a terror cell and suspects were involved in the killing of four policemen near the algerian border and hundreds of people arrested in the last three days as part of the government antiterror initiative. muslim prisoners in france being isolated to try to stop the radicalzation of other inmates and the french justice ministry says it's an extra precaution following charlie hebdo attacks last month and 167 muslims are in jails in french for religious

violated offenses. >> translator: it is not about regrouping them they are not staying together in a room and plotting all day long they are in specific area. so on one hand we protect the rest of the prison population on the other hand we isolate them in separate cells. each one of them so they won't be together. we try to intervene because honestly we want to fight terrorism to sanction and punish the terrorists who by the way do not fear death, who kill and accept it for themselves and we want to fight that. beyond all that we want to avoid terrorist act and dry up the grounds on which the terrorists thrive. >> reporter: now an argentine judge says there is not enough evidence to investigate allegations president kristina kirchner covered up a roll in a 1994 bombing of a jewish center and the editor has more from buenos aires. >> a significant ruling and good news indeed for the president

kristina, had the case moved forward and gone to trial she would have faced humiliating process of defending herself and impeachment and prison if found guilty of charges she has denied and due to give her very last speech to the nation on sunday before she steps down at the end of the year and rather than be on the defensive she will likely sound with victory but it's not over because prosecution can still appeal and in the same week that judges and prosecutors accused the government of trying to policitize the judicial system and very likely charges founded or not that she tried to pressure the judge and she might have had a hand in the ruling. now juan is a policy analyst on latin america at the center for global liberty and prosperity and joins me now from washington and thank you for

being with us and this is a huge story in argentina and what people are talking about there, where does this case as a result of the judge's decision here where does this case now go? >> well, it's pretty likely the prosecutor is going to appeal to the next instance within the argentina jury system. but appeal can take up to a year two years to be resolved. so by then president will be out of office nobody knows if she will be in argentina or she is going to move to other country. so definitely we won't see the light in this case the particular case at least for one more year or two. >> it doesn't change the fact of course that there are a lot of people in argentina who believe that there is some sort of a conspiracy going on here that alberto the prosecutor who died under mysterious circumstances and someone was behind that and

we saw those protests that have been going on for several days now. a lot of people say this decision is simply part of that conspiracy. what is your take on that? >> indeed majority of argentina people believe these men didn't kill himself and also they are pretty sure we will never know exactly what happened which is a pretty disappointing thing if you are in argentina and something as momentous of what happened to him you have certainty we will never know exactly what happened behind. in the case of the decision here the judge, he has a history of having issues with the government and having problems with the government and actually within argentina judiciary there is a council like a disciplinary body within the judiciary where you can take judges and present cases against him, the body can even impeach a

judge if they find they were not doing their job properly they have a case against the judiciary council, many people speculate that because of this he has majority within the judiciary council and maybe there was some sort of deal so he wouldn't prosecute the president. he wouldn't open the investigation against the president in exchange for not having and not being impeached. nobody knows exactly what the extent of the pressure the government has put on him particularly on the entire judiciary system. >> do you think this case will ever be solved? you mentioned the case may drag on for years. do you think we will ever know the answer as to what killed alberto and who killed him and why? >> it has been over 20 years since the bombings and we don't know exactly what happened. i'm with most people we will not

know the death ofro -- nisman. let's more to come on this news hour, a haven for pirates now it's struggling to survive, we report from a somali town trying to find a new identity. a call for action and a french president sounds the alarm or climate change and liverpool returned to the scene of one of their greatest triumphs in istanbul in the europe leavegue, details coming up. ♪ all that still ahead but first syria war began four years ago 12 million people have been displaced, many have sought refuge abroad and many internally displaced, 7.6 million according to u.n.

estimates. diplomatic editor james base has more on that. james, so pretty damning report and the numbers seem to get worse. i mean what if anything is the u.n. doing about it? >> well one year ago almost exactly to the day, there was a security council meeting and a rare moment of agreement and voted on a resolution resolution number 2139 urging greater humanitarian access and also resolution that said they have to stop the barrel bomb attacks that they have to be stopped across syria. one year the barrel bombs intensified and say the use of stopping humanitarian access of a weapon of war is increasing on the ground and sobering briefing and just listen to this one statement by the u.n.'s assistant secretary-general for

humanitarian affairs. >> over 2 million people in aleppo have been effected by willful denial of water and electricity by parties to the conflict this month. of the 212000 people who are besieged in conditions that deteriorate everyday only 304 were reached with food in january. >> over 200,000 people besieged and just 304 got food access really are completely staggering figures and look at the number of refugees in neighboring country, one year ago when u.n. passed that resolution 2.4 million and now the figure stands at 3.8 million. the end of this meeting as i say staggering figures in a very sobering briefing. the u.s. ambassador said if this doesn't motivate us literally

nothing will. >> james base reporting to us live there from the u.n. thanks for that. now more than a day after a truce took hold in eastern ukraine both sides showing a clear sign of retreat, pro-russia rebels seen transporting tanks and weapon out of donetsk 20 kilometers from the city pro-russia separatists initially used the truce as an opportunity to advance. the ukrainian military spokesman says there were few violations on wednesday night but there were some shell ings some shelling outside donetsk. now as front lines quiet the grim job of tracing all those killed or missing in the fighting it is only just beginning and paul brennan visited what is left of the airport where the scale of destruction makes that job extremely difficult, his report contains images which some viewers may find distressing. >> reporter: the battlefields of east ukraine are bleak and chilling places.

the destructive power of modern weapons, these are a stark impression and four months of bitter fighting left this whole area completely shattered, interior of the terminals have debris and rubble and those who fought and died here and salvation operation is far from delicate. >> translator: when a concrete beam falls down and a body is buried under it we have to lift it up somehow because it's all in a confined area and we cannot use any heavy lifting equipment. we had to use a controlled explosion to get at it. >> reporter: a group of captured ukrainian soldiers have been press ganged into excavating the bodies of dead colleagues and going through choking dust to lift the collapsed structure brick by brick. the task of locating extracting and identifying the corps of those killed in action in the conflict is extraordinary

difficult. as you can probably tell just by looking at the conditions in which these conscripts are having to work. the bodies of some 30 ukrainian soldiers found here so far but the process of transferring them to a morgue and then returning them to relatives receives low priority. these corpss were found 24 hours previously and still not have been taken away. and there were other battles, other casualties and in three other places in chaos of the conflict neither side have definitive figures for numbers missing in action. international red cross in donetsk is now trying to assist. >> at the moment we are cooperating with the morgues and plans and providing body bags to some groups involved in the retrieval of bodies and bodies and we are, yeah we are trying to get more in the process of the transfer of bodies and we

offered our services to the parties. >> reporter: according to donetsk nine soldiers bodies have been transferred to the ukrainian side for the sake of the bereaved relatives a bigger effort is required. across the conflict zone of east ukraine are many more fighters of both sides yet to be given dignity of a proper burial. paul brennan, al jazeera, donetsk. funerals being held in afghanistan after at least 190 people died in a series of avalanches, homes, schools and mosques were all buried in the northeastern province of panjshir and nicole johnston reports. >> reporter: bodies pulled out of the deep snow in panjshir providence, number of people and dozens of avalanches is growing, the heaviest snow they seen from decades and far from prepared. afghanistan had been experiencing a mild winter until now. there has been heavy dumps of snow up to two meters

smothering villages like this one, most of the province is still inaccessible and rescuers can only get as far as the outskirts of the valley. people are leaving their homes behind, they can't cope with this much snow. it's become too dangerous. >> translator: three children and one adult are still under the snow the government only rescued two people. also 300 animals are under the snow as a result of the avalanches. >> reporter: panjshir is a province with two mountain rages and narrow valley in between and one road in and out and the governor says around 300 people are using shovels to dig through the snow and don't have the right equipment to get to all the homes. >> translator: we demand the government comes and help rescue the people who are still under the snow. these people are very poor and need help. >> reporter: cars and trucks are stuck on the roads. getting around panjshir providence and many other parts of afghanistan has become

impossible. the path a tunnel carved through the mountains has been closed. it's the only road that connects the south of afghanistan to the north. it seems the worst of the snowstorms is over and conditions should improve over the next few days. and it will give emergency crews the chance to clear the road all the way to panjshir. but for many families help will come too late. nicole johnston, al jazeera, kabul. also in afghanistan a taliban suicide bomber targeted a turkish embassy vehicle and at least two people were killed in the first round attack on a turkish target in the afghan capitol kabul and pulled up to a vehicle and detonated their explosives. french president has warned that climate change could lead to more wars and disasters and made the comment at the start of a two-day visit to the philippines and joined by a delegation of u.n. officials to press for

urgent action on climate change. now the trip is part of a campaign leading to a global climate change conference in paris to be held in december. the meeting called cop 21 intends to create a legally binding agreement to cut greenhouse emissions. the framework was set at previous talks last december but experts warn that striking a deal will not be easy and that there will be fierce debates at the paris talks. and we have more from manila. >> reporter: it's a historic visit by the french president, the first time ever that the head of state from france will be visiting the country, to days here jam packed schedule, he not only will be meeting with government leaders and leaders of industry and businessmen but also visiting one of the most damaged communities by tropical storm hian from two years ago and that storm was the strongest on record to make landfall and

greatly it is put down two climate change. storms have always come across the philippines but never one as strong as hyan and it's expected that storms in the future will only get stronger if nothing is done to basically cut down on the carbon foot print of the global community. so the emphasis here of the president's visit is basically this is a collective responsibility, not just for developed countries but also to work together with the most vulnerable nations such as the philippines. the philippines here pretty much a small carbon foot print but is receiving the brunt of the climate change crisis. storms are just going to be getting stronger the country is struggling to cope with the effects of such typhoons and basically the president of both nations, france and philippines, wanting to emphasize climate change is real and the global community has to go into action now to basically try to avert a more pressing or a worse disaster in the future. >> still ahead on the news hour

when we come back spying on south africans leaked documents reveal loopholes in the rules of surveillance. clamping down on data discrimination, u.s. regulators approved new rules governing the internet. and in sport world number three andy murray has a day to forget in dubai and we have all the sport coming up. ♪

he's out there. there's a guy out there whose making a name for himself in a sport where your name and maybe a number are what define you. somewhere in that pack is a driver that can intimidate the intimidator. a guy that can take the king 7 and make it 8. heck. maybe even 9. make no mistake about it. they're out there. i guarantee it. welcome to the nascar xfinity series. >> at one time i felt that selling cocaine was my purpose. >> as the amount of drugs grew guns came in. >> murder rate was sky-high. >> this guy was the biggest in l.a. >> i was goin' through a million dollars worth of drugs every day. i liked it.

it's hard to believe that a friend would set you up. people don't get federal life sentences and beat them. >> they had been trafficking on behalf of the united states government. >> the cia admitted it. >> "freeway - crack in the system". only on al jazeera america. this is the al jazeera news hour reminder of our top stories, i.s.i.l. fighters reportedly secured a crucial bridge by baghdadi and close to an air base used by u.s. and iraqi soldiers attacked by suicide bombers on thursday. media reports say the man known as jahadi john has been identified, the man features in numerous i.s.i.l. be heading videos is living in london called mohamed. argentine federal court dismissed accusations against

the president that she helped cover up iran's alleged role of a 1994 bombing of a jewish center and judge said there was not enough evidence to launch an investigation. documents leaked to al jazeera investigative unit exposed some regulatory loopholes for south african spies and contained in secret intelligence documents known as spy cables and we have more from k town. >> reporter: ♪ from its home in pretoria the state security agency works with the stated aim at keeping people safe. the spy cables wereveal spying on south african citizens and applauded by some former spies. >> we have among the best mechanisms in the world even better than some of the great

democracy. >> reporter: despite the prayed one former minister of this says the rules are not tough enough. >> i don't believe it's the necessary checks and balances over the security and intelligence agencies. >> reporter: the leaked papers reveal the weaknesses in the regulations. this surveillance policy dated 2006 says it was drawn up in line with the law. but it includes one major loophole. >> the director general may approve any deviation from the provisions of this policy. >> reporter: that appears to put south africa spies above their own policy and the law. if a spy wants to put someone under physical surveillance they fill out this form then they discuss the application before a panel to get their line manager and deputy director general's signature. since edward snowden's leaks it moved to electronic surveillance. in south africa that is reportedly done from this now descript building in joe --

johanesburg. >> this requires approval by designated judge and in my experience that judge was quite demanding. >> reporter: the system is open to abuse. steven is an investigative journalist who suspected police were illegally tapping his phone. he later found his number had been slipped into a court order for a totally separate phone tap. >> line to the judge, this is an old trick apparently the security forces used to do that as well. >> reporter: now such tricks are carried out by the same anc that was once itself the target. the state security agency says the law governens its actions but with the loopholes and tricks of the trade spies are able to get around the rules with consequences for people and their privacy, kevin with al jazeera, cape town. now internet activists are declaring victory over big cable

companies after a major ruling in the united states the agency which regulates communications has just voted to impose the tough u.s. rules yet on broadband and internet providers and al jazeera john hendron reports on the decision. >> reporter: u.s. federal communication commission decided it will treat the internet like a utility and there will be no fast lane. >> with a shout out to formulate americans who took their time to share with us their views. today history is being made by a majority of this commission. as we vote for a fast fair and open internet and with that i will call for the yeah and they and all in favor say aye, opposed, no, the ayes have it. [applause] fcc chairman tom wheeler originally proposed doing away

with so called net neutrality but attracted millions of public comments and a huge outcry the question was whether to allow internet providers to charge a premium for what would essentially be a second internet, a faster more reliable internet. the rest of us who don't pay extra would have a slower connection. think about it this way, speed makes or breaks the companies that deliver content like movies or music through the web, when you see that a site is loading and loading you click away. faster sites have the advantage. the idea of net neutrality is we should all travel the same roads on the internet whether you are netflix or some up start you get to use the same digital highway and makes the internet a revolution business tool everyone reaches everyone else at the same speed. for years internet providers like comcast and time warner and at&t and verizon thinks they can charge more for a faster internet and creating a separate lane for those who can afford it and means those who cannot

afford premium access including smaller companies would share a slower more crowded digital highway, that segregation critics say would kill the free and open internet as we know it. but now the fcc will regulate the internet service the same way it regulates phone service or, well, the highways. the new rules will prevent broadband providers from blocking or limiting content and john hendron, al jazeera, washington. matt wood is policy director of free press and working to safeguard an open internet and he joins us now from washington. so presumably you are pleased with this decision but just explain to us for those of us who are not familiar with the term just why does net neutrality matter not just for people in the u.s. but around the world, what implications does it have for people across the world? >> sure it matters greatly. i think the report does a good job of explaining why this is kind of like a phone system

analogies are never perfect but basically the idea is you should get to decide where you go online and what you say when you get there and this victory means that the cable companies and phone companies who provide us with that crucial access to the internet don't get to control the internet itself. they don't get to dictate how fast a site loads or what we can say once we arrive there. so we think it's incredibly important. it's restoring the law and protections we always had in place but really putting them back on the soundest legal footing possible. >> these are very big companies we are talking about and they have a lot of clout behind them in terms of the influence they could have on government. i mean, is it going to end there? i mean they are not going to simply take this and move on, are they? >> no, of course not. that is the thing, it's a huge victory and tomorrow we will start defending it so they will most likely take the fcc to court and sue and claim the decision was not actually founded on the law we are confident we will win that but

you never can tell with a court. and also go to court where they wield tremendous influence and where the power and money are alluding to really comes into play. the way we won this is not just good arguments i hope but millions of people backing it as you heard chairman wheeler mention in the speech you played and we have to keep showing people and showing these lawmakers that yes these big companies have money and they definitely have clout but we have people and we have people willing to stand up and fight for what they want. >> the argument was made there in john hendron's report from the point of view from the cable companies is if people have the money for a faster service then they should be able to charge more money for that and if people can't afford it then they should have the separate lane for the slowest service. i mean the argument is this is a marketplace and this is how the capitalist market works. >> right, and not to quibble with details of the report

people can and do buy more speed, i can buy faster connection at home and you can buy a slower one or the other way around. what this is really about is not letting certain companies cut the line. so i have a fast connection but the reason we call it net neutrality is bits move across it neutrally, nobody can pay for say i want to go to the front of the line even though the other piece of information would have arrived first. also about double charging the cables and phone companies in the middle of the equation would love to not only charge customers for service but also turn around and have netflix or google or any small company they could go after too but especially the big companies who are internet providers of content they would like to charge in both directions and we always say of course people should pay for the right to access content but that is what the users pay for, we pay a lot for broadband in this country and should have the right to use that service once we purchased it on whatever we like and that is really what this is all

about. >> good to speak with you on this matt wood joining us there from washington, thanks nor for your time. >> thanks so much. now three al jazeera journalists were briefly detained in paris on wednesday as they attempted to produce a report on unmanned aircraft also known as drones. governments around the world scrambling to workout how to restrict use of devices widely available on the retail market as technology editor talks about legislation to control the use may be at expense of creativity in the t.v. industry. new technology is frequently disruptive and proliferation of small, cheap remote control aircraft known as drones is no exception. this footage was shot from a drone above istanbul square during protests in june 2013. the police responded though and shot it down. drones like these are cheap. some of them cost a couple

hundred dollars which is why they are so popular. pretty much anyone can buy a drone like this and fly it pretty much anywhere. and it's the lack of control that has governments worried. drones have become a standard piece of instrument trying to prevent views of disasters and war zones. hobbyists too see their potential, airline pilots in the united states last year reported dozens of close encounters with drones. now the u.s. government is considering measures including a pilot's license, bans on flying at night and near airports and requiring operators to keep the drone in their line of sight at all times. >> you are not supposed to use these things within 50 yards of buildings. you are supposed to have them within line of sight of the person who is operating them. but very very few of these drones are licensed which leads

to the prospect of 12-year-old boys using these things for the top of a box of flats. >> reporter: late last year al jazeera reported on the illegal appearance of drones above nuclear power plants in france often at night and they warned of the potential threat. these small engines are big enough to carry small quantities of explosive materials. >> reporter: like the flight switch which has been seen in resent days over paris it was never revealed who was behind those over the nuclear plants but governments are increasingly concerned and tightening rules, controls which are likely to curb the use of drones for all including those trying to use the technology to provide an un unparalleled view of the world. i'm with al jazeera, doha. in somalia pirates dropped off the coast of east africa a thousand pirates in prisons and

families left destitude and most were the sole bread winners of their household. >> reporter: this was the capitol. the scenic beaches were once lined of ships that were hijacked and brought here at the height pirates were the main source of income in this town. as it declines it has been abandon. restaurants where pirates and negotiators and middlemen used to dine are now empty. people here say the good times are long gone and almost everyone is effected and those who are there and are among those struggling with the main customers, the pirates gone business is slow. >> translator: a cart used to be $15 then pirates came and the price went up to $50, that was good for us. but now they left and the locals

cannot afford it. >> reporter: it may have been good for some in this town but there are those who lives have been destroyed by the illicit trade. over the last nine years more than 200 young man took boats like this one to hijack ships for ran some and 60 died and the rest are in prison in so somalia and used to provide for the family and now struggling themselves. he is in jail in yemen and he is a convicted pirate. today like everyday she is trying to reach him on the phone. and she is unsuccessful. . >> translator: we only depend on what god gives us. our lives were better when he was here. he used to look after everyone. now we are very worried about him. he is not in a good place. >> reporter: the relatives of the pirates in prison are desperate to have them back but the mayor says the town doesn't need them. >> translator: when they were here they had an effect on the

town in many ways. they were responsible for poor security destroyed the local culture, robberies increased, they brought alcohol and prostitution. our town is better off without them. >> reporter: for now trying to recover and move on but for many their relatives are a reminder of the town's unpleasant past one they are not proud of al jazeera, somalia. one person killed and five others wounded when five bombs exploded on cairo on thursday and divided exploded outside of a restaurant in the district killing one and wounding two. three policemen wounded when another went off near a police station. two more bombs were found outside votofone and cairo and left no injuries although the shops were damaged. wildfire that began four days ago in argentina is still burning and bad weather is

hampering firefighters. large areas of forest have already been destroyed in the province, state of emergency declared as people raced to save their properties and livestock. coming up, in sport, south africa prepared to meet the west indies in a clash to the cricket world cup, those details in a minute. ♪

♪ aout break of measles is making many germans sick some patients ignoring doctors' advice to be

immunized and politicians worried that efforts to eradicate disease are failing and from berlin nick spicer reports. ♪ a public service announcement encouraging people to get themselves, their children vaccinated against measles. not everyone is listening. she ignored her doctor's advice and her two kids contracted the disease suffering high temperatures diarrhea and skin rashes and alternative medicine she says what they went through is better than side effects of vaccination which she claims include bad allergies and deficient immune system. >> translator: nobody could convince me vaccinations afford protection, i question the whole concept, scientifically it's not proven how the immune system works, i'm certain i wouldn't want to vaccinate my children. >> reporter: there has been a spike in measles cases in berlin in resent weeks, over 570 cases. at latest count and the school was shut down at the beginning

of the week when one student fell ill with measles and several others asked to stay home because they had not been vaccinated a day later a 18-month-old died in a berlin hospital because the government hoped to eradicate measles in 2015. coalition think it's worth working to if it makes vaccinations mandatory with a law says the leading person of parliament. >> personal view as a doctor if i take a strong person on science and reject modern day science and so forth, that is fine. if it concerns my heirs, but it is not so fine if it concerns the heirs of children who may take away diseases from which they would never recover. >> reporter: the government says it wants most of all to reach parts of the public that may not have got the message yet, before worrying about parents who do not trust conventional medicine. tough for english clubs in

europe and we have the sport. >> thank you very much. to the europa league and liverpool locked out of the tournament after losing to turkish success on penalties. english team returning to the turk stadium in istanbul for the first time since the triumph in 2005 champion league and led 1-0 in the first leg and after missing chances in the first half the turks equalized the tie after the break, tall guy the scorer, the match went to extra time but there was no score, so it went to penalties and with leading 5-4 in the shoot out and liverpool missed his spot kick to send it through to the last 16. 16 second leg matches in total on thursday selection of the top games and reigning champion severe and knocked them out and remain on curious for a fourth title in a decade a good night for them and knocked out them and bad news for greek champion

as they crushed out with a knee problem. in action in the europa league but domestic suspended but the greek government have backed track on indefinite ban of futbol to prevent crowd violence and it will last over a week suspension and cover the top tier super league and took the decision to suspend matches after violent scenes at sunday's athens darby. to cricket now and a big match coming up, at the world cup in australia as the west indies take on south africa in sidney and coming off the back of a big defeat to india in the last group game in melbourne and leaves them fourth spot behind ireland and going to the game with a bit of mention losing the first match and wins against pakistan and zimbabwe is second

in the group and this is by the record breaking of 215 and gail missed the final training session in sidney with a bad back but south africa captain is not reading too much into that. >> you don't see them his body is quite old for his age i think and he needs to look after herself to make sure he gets on the pack again. the go around is definitely not a surprise to see him back like that. and it's making sure you have your plans in place against him, he is a world-class player and can win teams from almost any situation. formula one and dennis says driver alonzo is completely fine following his high-speed crash during testing in barcelona and 33-year-old left hospital on wednesday and is expected to line up in madrid for the season opening race next month and admits he was knocked

unconscious for a few seconds after hitting a wall in preseason testing but he added the two-time world champion was okay to race without a final decision would be taken by doctors. tennis world number three andy murray out of the dubai championships by a teenager two time grand slam winner demolished in quarter finals in straight sets and he is ranked below murray and murray made 55 unforced errors and now with a clash with roger federer. >> i was playing really good feeling very good on the court you know and i'm happy to be in the semi finals i just beat andy of ei and it's amazing. >> reporter: thomas is also through to the last four and beat them in three sets to get there, reward is semi final with the world number one yakovich.

nba, george close to return after breaking his leg in a warm up game last august, the indiana forward back on course and took part in his first full practice earlier. george a two time all-star have not said he would but currently 11 in the east and that is three places off the playoffs. golf the lowest ranked player in the world leads the way after the first round of the johanesburg open and nick henning is joined 1555 in the world rankings but he managed to equal the course record in a nine under par of 62 to finish the opening day on top of the leaderboard. europe rider captain had a 72 which included two double bogies and try 52.491 kilometers is the

march that cyclist thomas decker was trying to beat in mexico the previous was set and fell short by 27 meters and to make it worst he had to wait five minutes for the result because of a faulty clock. that is your sport for later. >> thanks very much and look forward to that. when a video of an english woman hearing for the first time was posted on line last year the clip went viral racking up 9 million views on youtube and now she has written a book about her experience jessica went to meet her. [crying] it's all right, it's a big, life-changing day today. >> reporter: this is the moment that her cochlear implants were turned on and she could hear for the first time. >> i can hear my own voice. >> reporter: for a lifetime 39

years she had been deaf until last year when she had a small electronic device a cochlear implant put in her ears birds, music, her mother's voice all came rushing in but more importantly being able to hear has helped joe keep with going blind. she has progressive tunnel vision, another symptom of her rare genetic condition usher syndrome. >> i would never be a hearing person like the next person but i can hear things that i couldn't hear before. and then with regards to being blind i feel less blind because i can feel like a sense of the world around me. >> reporter: she was born deaf in a hearing family and wore arhearing aid as a child and worked hard with her grandfather on her speech and coins were the incentive. >> when i pronounced the word right he would give me a coin and as a child i was so determined to try and get all the coins on the table and i can remember really trying to

pronounce the word perfectly. >> reporter: before she could hear joe would dance with others and try to hear music through vibrations. >> music has been the most exciting thing in the whole world and i had this incredible change in my life. >> reporter: the world is not all beautiful music and joe has been surprised by angry sounds she once was oblivious too. >> i was very unaware of the bad side of them and that probably is what shocked me the most for people arguing and like drivers beeping their horn. >> reporter: armed with cock cochlear implants and book is determined her blindness will not distract her focus of raising awareness of usher syndrome jessica with al jazeera, london. more news in a couple of minutes, straight ahead on al jazeera.

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